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[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

Use -H instead of -S

bye
  freddy77

Il giorno 25/ott/2009, alle ore 09.57, Tareq  
<tarek.atallah AT tahadi.com> ha scritto:

> Hi very one,
>
> I have installed tds , now I want to check the connection with sql
> I tried tsql -S 'myip' -p 'myport' -U 'myuser' -P 'mypassword'
>
> I keep getting this error
>
> Msg 20009, Level 9, State -1, Server OpenClient, Line -1
> Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
> There was a problem connecting to the server
>
> Any help?
>
>
>
>
> Tarek Atallah
> Senior Database Administrator
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> jklowden AT schemamania.org
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:53 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Ms sql backslash in named instance 2005
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 06:56:00PM +0100, apk AT blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> > thanks freedy and cedric for your quick response. Although that  
> > works, I'm
> in a difficult situation where I need it to work as before. I won't  
> go into
> all the details but I have an existing app that not only uses  
> freetds as its
> intended but also parses it and uses it within an application. I  
> can't alter
> the app and need the functionality we have been using up to now.
> > Do you know if the problem I have is a bug or a feature?
>
> Maybe a little of both.  I would say it's undesirable.
>
> What's happening: tds_read_config_info() calls  
> parse_server_name_for_port()
> whose real purpose is to interpret instance\hostname and hostname:port
> strings.
> It's not supposed to interpret the [servername] string in  
> freetds.conf,
> but that's what it's doing.
>
> If you set TDSDUMPCONFIG, you'll see near the top of the log it's  
> looking
> for
> your 'server\name' name, and then another message, "Parsed  
> servername, now
> back on 0" that means it parsed for a port number and came up with  
> zero.
>
> I think the idea, once upon a time, was that
>
>    tsql -S 'instance\servername'
> or
>    tsql -S 'servername:port'
>
> would be a way to override the instance/port in freetds.conf.  But  
> I'm not
> so
> sure that's such a great feature and, even if it is, it belongs  
> properly to
> the tsql application, not libtds.
>
> I would try deleting the call to parse_server_name_for_port() and  
> see if
> that solves your problem.
>
> HTH.
>
> --jkl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From:  Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
> > Date:  Fri 23 Oct 2009 18:08
> >
> > Il giorno ven, 23/10/2009 alle 17.46 +0100, apk AT blueyonder.co.uk ha
> > scritto:
> > > Hi,
> > > using freetds version 0.82 on solaris 10. tsql fails to connect to  
> > > sql
> server named instances as they contain backslashes. Ie.
> > > tsql -S'hostname\instancename' -U joe -P bloggs
> > > A work around is to remove the backslash in freetds.conf. However,  
> > > this
> worked fine in freetds 0.62.4.
> > > The only error is
> > > 'There was a problem connecting to the server'.
> > >
> > > Its quite important that we maintain the exisiting functionality.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution that would avoid  
> > > using
> an unstable version?
> > >
> >
> > Try -H instead of -S
> >
> > freddy77
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